Monday, June 17, 2013

Harvest Monday, June 17th, 2013

The harvests started with me picking most of my kohlrabi as I had to plant the last of the sweet potatoes.

Over three pounds of strawberries were picked.

This basket contains the disappointing Napa cabbage harvest that was attacked by earwigs. I picked the first of the fava beans. Michelle says she eats the whole pod sometime. I wasn't sure I wanted to sacrifice the inside bean for that, but I had to try it. The flavor is very different. I haven't decided if I like it yet or not. And more turnips were ready to pick. The Japanese turnips are interesting. They don't mature like radishes. With radishes you pick them all at the same time, but turnips mature over a much longer time. So I get some every week which is nice.

The Michihili cabbage was also attacked by earwigs. I cut off the green parts since that is what they ate. Luckily for me the ribs are what I like most.

More peas started to dribble in at the beginning of the week.

I picked over 10 pounds of chard most of which I gave away. The piles is deceiving. It is much taller than it is wide. I'm surprised it didn't fall over.

One monster kohlrabi (1lb 10oz) was hiding in with the broccoli plants. I obviously got the plants mixed up when planting. Whoops!

More peas were ready at the end of the week. I'm sure I'll be eating peas most every day with lunch. I make dips and love munching on them. Some will get cooked, some might get pickled, but most will be eaten raw. Well actually most will be given away. I put more in my townhouse mates fridge than in mine. I also had the first picking of basil and parsley. The parsley will just get chopped into whatever I'm making, but the basil was dried. And since I was out of onions in the house, I picked more bunching onions. I find that I'll use them for meals if they are already picked, but often I don't go out and pick them during meal prep unless I'm desperate. Picking a good handful every week works the best for me.

Alliums 0.47 lbs

Beans 0.21 lbs

Greens 14.06 lbs

Greens, Asian 5.11 lbs

Herbs 0.64 lbs

Peas 2.49 lbs

Roots 1.39 lbs

Weekly Tally 24.37 lbs

Yearly Tally 81.18 lbs, -$86.99

Fruit

Strawberries 3.41 lbs

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.

It was a very very dry spring for us. And last year was pretty dry too. So the slugs have been manageable this year. I haven't even brought out my Sluggo. I've lost some strawberries, but not so many as for me to worry about it.

Beautiful harvests this week as usual. 20 pounds of greens are very impressive! It is nice to see others joining the harvest adding a variety of flavor and color to the mix. I am drooling over your strawberries. They look so yummy. I really need to think about adding a strawberry bed.

Everything looks beautiful. I'm waiting for some favas to try Michelle's suggestion. Hope I like them. I also like the white Tokyo Cross turnips. They are so sweet. I just slice them and saute them in butter with the greens.

Hi! Your kohlrabi is such a striking pretty color! Lucky you to get 3 lbs. of strawberrys and you are ahead of me on the peas but mine have pods now! Lots of nice other food there to eat too! I think the spinach I listed on my blog today was actually swiss chard! I need to write things down I guess! Nancy

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I've been gardening for almost three decades now, ever since my husband and I bought our first house. Every garden has been different. The first was small and the soil was almost pure sand. The second was larger and I had heavy clay. The third and current one which is just outside of Boston, is by far the largest even though the lot is by far the smallest. Since we bought the house new, we designed the landscaping ourselves, and the soil we added was fairly good. My challenge here is the location. We are so close to our neighbors that their houses can shade the garden.